Monday DE

[bjornwilde]

 Since I am up early, let's go ahead and do this. 

How is your pup with displays of affection? 

Comments

[just_cant_lose]

Absolutely fine. The more theatrical and distasteful to other people, the better.

[i_am_your_host]

Depends if Emcee means it or not. For example, as a performer or if he's "working" someone, he can pretend to be overly affectionate. Kisses on the cheek, touching the face and hair, sitting in laps. But if he truly has feelings for someone, he's either terrible at it or exaggerates it even more to mask how terrible he is at it. Only recently has he become somewhat comfortable with hugs, especially when he's sincere, and he will only willingly hug certain people.

[yinyangwizard]

YT has no problem with them - her own or anyone else's - just so long as they stop short of stripping naked and, you know, fucking in public. Verbal expressions of affection, however, make her uncomfortable. The more sincere they are, the squirmier she gets.

Abe no Seimei will flirt, read poetry, and be shamelessly sentimental with the objects of his affection in public (so long as they are receptive). But he won't even do a kiss on the cheek in public - anything physical is strictly for private settings.

[varadia]

Ysalwen drinks up displays and gestures of affection like a sponge. She loves them. They didn't generally happen in the Circle Tower, for reasons, and so now she's like "YES NO MORE DEPRIVATION FOR ANYONE". Sorry, trolls. *pats karkat*

X is okay with them? Effusive ones make her feel kind of uncomfortable, just because she doesn't feel capable of reciprocating in the same way. Also first-time hugs from people always startle her. Always.

Flemeth says mmmmmmno.

Raven will even make out with his enemies. It's all cool.

[have_no_mercy]

Not so good for any of them.

Tess, if it's not serious and she's in a playful enough mood would be fine with it. Otherwise, keep your PDAs to yourself.

[bjornwilde]

Izana: Will be friendly and express they are happy to see you. They will do favors without asking and other such things to show affection. Anything physical though happens out of sight, even holding hands. It's a cultural thing.

Touji: He seems rebellious enough he'd be good with holding hands or quick kisses, as well as hugs, out in public.

Sam: Very into physical affection, whether in public or not. He will temper the degree of affection to the other person's comfort though...at least in public.

Sabine: I am not sure of. She seems like she has to really trust and has feeling for someone before physical affection happens. Granted the show does do a lot of physical affection, so I could be wrong. She will make art as soon as she is fond of someone.

Ahsoka: Is awkward and does realize physical affection is a thing until it happens. Jedi training and all. This might change eventually, now that she's no longer a Jedi.

Selina: Funny enough, I think meeting Jay and growing to trust him has allowed her to open up. She's still careful whom she touches and shows interest in, but she's willing to show it now. In fact--"if you can hit me with a bagel, I'll let you kiss me"--she's already flirting with a certain orphaned boy.

[cottoncandypink]

ha. hahahahahahaha.



Yeah, he's the worst.

[mnt_mike]

I don't think any of mine appreciate surprise affection from strangers, there's a bit too much muscle memory to contend with.

However, once you're no longer a stranger...or better yet adopted into the family, then the rules change.

Mike is all about public displays of affection.
As are Aang and Bumi.

Splinter prefers them from a smaller subset of folks, as does Raph.
Though...bear in mind with Raph, he considers shoulder checks to be a valid form of showing he cares.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's actually pretty good about physical affection. We see him hug his brother a few times, he's happy to put his arm around Sora or Taichi, and he initiates hand-holding with, I think, every member of the group except Mimi and Hikari.

As far as verbal affection goes, he's terrible, though, and Gabumon isn't much better. He has his moments, but even when he does try it, it usually comes out as very, very awkward.

Hawke is kind of terrible at any kind of displays of affection. He gets awkward and uncomfortable, and I don't think he'd manage to get to the end of one without intentionally sabotaging it with a bad joke.

[genarti]

Enjolras is a young French guy of the early 19th century, written by a Romantic author. He's definitely fine with them! I mean, okay, physically he tends more towards fervent armclasps than to tacklehugs, but he's very prone to the former, and he can deal with being tacklehugged by a friend. And verbally, he would be a giant hypocrite if he weren't okay with them, given that a sizeable chunk of his canonical dialogue (and internal monologue) is about how his friends are SO SUPER AWESOME OMG, including shout-outs in a barricade speech, so yes. Honestly, anyone who has a hard time with occasional deeply sincere paeans of affection will also have a hard time being friends with this guy. That said, he does prefer to talk about how other people are awesome instead of himself, but he's completely fine with the occasional "my friend, I love and sincerely admire you!" and so forth.

Cosette is likewise good with them, but the details of how she displays her affection are slightly different. She grew up more isolated than Enjolras, and she isn't part of a tumbling group of OMG I LOVE YOU MAN friends. But still, she's pretty open about her feelings most of the time, and she's good with displays of affection both tactile and verbal.

This is probably a good moment to note that for both of them, I'm referring to same-gender displays, especially for the verbal. (With Cosette there are the dad and husband exceptions, though, of course.) They come from a very gender-segregated society, and a hug from someone of what their society would call the opposite gender means something very different from a same-gender friend's casual affection.

Kazul will roll her eyes but secretly be fine with it, up to a point! That point is "okay, okay, enough sap, don't you have things to be doing," grumble grumble curmudgeon. But she'll be tolerantly eyerolly, not offended, if the displays are sincere.

Thor likes you too, friend! :D Yeah, uh, like Enjolras, he's both open about his own sentiments of affection, and totally fine with other people's, whether we're talking casual tactile affection or embarrassingly sincere declarations. He takes tacklehugs with more enthusiastic reciprocation, though, even if he doesn't instigate them much.

Doctor Dinosaur will not be lured by your puny mammal sentiment!!! Also if you tried to hug him he might eat you.